I work on Linux all the time and I'm clueless about Windows not even having one to try it, is Git nowadays working on Windows? or am I making problems for my Windows-pals by using it?
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It works, but not well. If you Google around a bit, you'll find the port which uses MinGW. The main problems are instability and some very Linux-like tools (gittk). If you really need it though, you should be able to get by.
Daniel Spiewak
2008-09-23 22:14:42
+12
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As far as I can tell msysgit works perfectly well under Windows Vista.
This after a whole 2-month experience checking out plugins and applications for Ruby on Rails :-)
Anyway, it was a breeze to install, no problem.
Christian Lescuyer
2008-09-23 22:26:49
I've been using msysgit on Win XP SP 2 for a while now - and had no problems with it.
Peter Boughton
2008-09-23 22:33:11
We've got it running on Win XP SP3 and Win XP SP2. No issues - AND the msysgit team keeps pretty up-to-date. Was even able to get it working with Pageant to push/pull to a SSH-accessed git repo.
Michael Johnson
2008-09-24 05:52:45
me too - the msysgit version has been running fine for me on Windows XP SP2. Used locally and also with remote repositories on github and heroku.
tardate
2008-09-24 09:20:49
I set up a PM with msysgit and git-gui last week - no problems so far!
Ben Scofield
2008-10-02 12:09:03
+6
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I have had no problems, even with the gui tools (gitk and git gui), using git from Cygwin. The Cygwin people are very conscientious and have a large community to boot.
Denis Bueno
2008-09-24 00:00:13
+1
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You should also checkout Git-Extensions which adds git commands as shell extensions - works great with msysgit.
Paul Hedderly
2009-03-09 11:48:05
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I've heard good things about it, but a sticking point for me (and the Japanese company I work for) is lack of cross-platform Unicode filename support. It depends if that particular feature is important to you.
See Issue 80 in the msysgit bug tracker.
See the What DVCS support Unicode filenames? question I asked about this.
Craig McQueen
2009-05-17 09:03:53